Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14569361388)

Identifier: belltelephonemag4344amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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The future becomes present: PICTUREPHONE service is now here on a commercial basisbetween New York, Chicat^o and Washint^ton, D. C. On the inaugural day of the service.June 24, the first call was made from the National Geographic Society Building inWashington, D. C, by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson to Dr. Elizabeth A. Wood, a scientist atBell Telephone Laboratories and former president of the American CrystallographicAssociation, in New Yorks Grand Central Terminal. Above, one of the more striking benefitsof the new service was demonstrated on opening day when Laura Rabinowitz, a 15-year-olddeaf student at New Yorks Lexington School for the Deaf, and Howard Mann, 14, (on screen),communicated by lip reading during the first PICTUREPHONE call from the PrudentialBuilding in Chicago to Grand Central Terminal in New York.